"Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear" Quotes
"Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear" by Elizabeth Gilbert explores the nature of inspiration and encourages readers to embrace their curiosity and creativity without fear.
nonfiction | 288 pages | Published in 2015
Quotes
Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.
You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.
Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome.
Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them.
Perfectionism stops people from completing their work, yes—but even worse, it often stops people from beginning their work.
Creativity itself doesn’t care at all about results—the only thing it craves is the process.
We are all walking repositories of buried treasures.
You have treasures hidden within you—extraordinary treasures—and bringing those treasures to light takes work and faith and focus and courage and hours of devotion.
It might have been done before, but it hasn’t been done by you!
Done is better than good.
